O Crominho do Técnico

I really miss caracóis in the summer/spring here in Boston. I’ve asked around and there doesn’t seem to be an easy way to buy them. Here’s a recipe if you can find them!

Combine an iPad and a Super Mario Game…

This Sunday, we hope!

It took me one month to be able to run 3.25 miles in 32 minutes in the vibram shoes. It’s still tiring but I have no major pains the next day. More importantly, my right knee hasn’t been complaining and I recently realized that I can now stretch my hamstrings without my piriformis getting in [...]

This is why I love Ricky Gervais. See how Letterman doesn’t know what to do or say. He’s just in awe about Ricky’s un-PC’ness :)

no iPad for me to play with. Lousy friends…

My next casual shoes, when they come out (April?, nope late May). Turns out that they will probably be Euro-only for still an unknown reason to me. My bet is that europeans are more apt to try crazy casual shoes than their fellows americans. I’ve been loving to run a bit in my fivefingers KSO that [...]

Due to my computer abilities I have been appointed the lab’s internal IT manager. It basically entails nothing with the exception of communicating to the real IT people what the lab needs or fixing up some code in our PHP system for ordering and some databases. One of my duties is to administer the mailing [...]

Part of my life is pretty much exposed to everyone. I’m registered and active in social networks sites and I have a couple of websites. One of them is this personal blog and the other is a very public blog aggregator for science blogs written in Portuguese called Divulgarciencia, http://divulgarciencia.com. Being exposed, public and fairly vocal [...]